Human, know thyself

By Kim Michaels

In order to make full use of the answers on this website, it is important to have a basic understanding of the components of your self. The following will give a very brief summary, but you will find a more detailed teaching on the Transcendence Toolbox website.

You were created as a spiritual being, which means that a part of your Self still resides in the spiritual realm. This is what the ascended masters call your I AM Presence. Your spiritual individuality is permanently anchored in your Presence, which means that it cannot be lost or damaged, no matter what you have experienced during your embodiments on earth. Your positive learning experiences are also stored in the Presence, in the form of what is called your causal body. As you grow towards Christhood, you will begin to make use of this stored wisdom and experience, and it will have a profound impact on your life.

The part of you that descends into physical embodiment is called the Conscious You. This is the seat of your free will, and it is charged with making decisions based on its current perception. Yet the Conscious You is truly an extension of the Creator’s being, which means it does not have individuality; your individuality being seated in the I AM Presence. The Conscious You is pure awareness, which means that, like the I AM Presence, it cannot be damaged or destroyed by anything in the material world.

The Conscious You takes embodiment by projecting itself into a self that is made in the material world. This lower self is what many religions or spiritual teachings call the soul. The ascended masters call it the soul vehicle or the four-fold vehicle. The reason is that it has four levels, corresponding to the four levels of the material universe. LINK

Your soul vehicle has an identity level, which is where you define your identity, not as a purely spiritual being but as a being that interacts with the material world. The next level is the mental level, where you have your more concrete thoughts about who you are, what you want to do and how you can accomplish this. The next level is the emotions, where you collect the emotional energy to carry out your thoughts and sense of identity. And finally, there is the level which interacts with the brain and nervous system of the physical body.

What keeps us alive is a stream of energy from the I AM Presence, which flows through the four lower bodies. As the light flows through, it is colored by the contents of each body. For example, if you see yourself as a highly evolved monkey and deny that you are a spiritual being, the light will take on a certain coloring in your identity body. This will set a framework for your thoughts, as your mental body cannot override what comes from the identity body. Likewise, your emotional body cannot override the mental and so forth.

Regardless of how you see yourself, you are still the Conscious You. You can at any time project yourself out of your current sense of self, just as you projected yourself into it. Yet for most people this will require a gradual process of raising their conscious awareness. Many people on earth have their conscious awareness centered around the physical body, and this makes it very difficult for them to master their emotions and thoughts. More spiritual people have usually shifted the focus of their conscious awareness to one of the higher bodies.

As you purify the four lower bodies, you will gradually uncover your deepest sense of identity, and you can then realign it with the reality you receive through the Christ mind. Thus, you can stop defining yourself based on the imperfections on earth and instead claim and express the true individuality in your I AM Presence.